Comment 13 for bug 59987

Matthias Klose wrote:
> further, we don't support sun-java5 in main, so the best solution
> is to prefer the supported option.

What is the reason for that? Long time it was difficult to get Java the "it just works" way onto Debian or Ubuntu, now it is easily possible and then it it's "not supported"? I remember Mark Shuttleworth writing about how he dislikes the "not supported" phrase ... strange.